Michele Schirru
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Michele Schirru (Italian pronunciation: [miˈkɛle ˈskirru]; (Padria, 19 October 1899 - Rome, 29 May 1931) was an Italian-naturalized American anarchist who attempted to assassinate Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
[edit] Biography
Michele Schirru was born in Padria, Sardinia on 19 October 1899, but raised in Pozzomaggiore. He attended school until he reached the 6th grade, where he was hired as a blacksmith's Apprenticeship. After his father left for the US to make his fortune, he was admitted , self-taught, to the Maritime School of La Spezia , but he was forced to stop his studies because of pneumonia.
[edit] United States of America
During 1919 Michele Schirru was unemployed and disappointed by PSI's factory occupations of 1919-1920 (That were known as red biennium, which is when he decided to seek opportunity in the U.S.A.
He first traveled to France Where he decided to set sail to the U.S.A, and became a citizen there. There he made a living trading bananas at Arthur Avenue.
